Course Readings

Some Definitions of Magic and of Mysticism

Magic and Amulets in Late Antiquity

Nag Hammadi Library I (a better link)

Nag Hammadi Library II

"Thunder, Perfect Mind"

"Another Eve"

Dionysius the Areopagite

Introduction to Meister Eckhart and his sermon "The Secret Word"

Eckhart's "What is Prayer?"

Background Reading(FYI): Selections from Meister Eckhart

John of Morigny's Book of Visions

Sepher Raziel

Selections from Agrippa's Occult Philosophy

Agrippa's Occult Philosophy, (London: 1651)

Alchemical Works: Mirror of the Philosophers

Alchemy Website.

Rosicrucian Writings

FOR MONDAY, READ:
Fama Fraternitatis [The First Rosicrucian Publication]

Confessio (Second Rosicrucian Publication]

Chemical Wedding, Chapter 1

Selections from John Dee's Conversations with Spirits

Jacob Boehme and Jane Leade Website

Jacob Boehme: The Supersensual Life

Georg von Welling, Opus Mago-Cabalisticum selections

Freemasonry: The London Grand Lodge

Books Currently on Reserve in MSU Main Library for REL 275

Faivre, Antoine, Access to Western Esotericism, (1994)

Filoramo, Giovanni, History of Gnosticism, (1990)

Jonas, Hans, Gnostic Religion (1963)

Pagels, Elaine, The Gnostic Gospels (1982)

Deveney, John, Paschal Beverly Randolph, (1997)

Robinson, James, The Nag Hammadi Library (1988)

Schumacher, Wayne, The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance, (1974)

Van den Broek, R., Gnosis and Hermeticism (1998)

Versluis, Arthur, Wisdom's Children: A Christian Esoteric Tradition, (1999)
(Information on Lead, Pordage, Boehme, and others)